The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-01
CROSS OF A NEW CRUSADE.
Some of the Things Said by DR.. Edward
McGlynn in His Recent Lecture.
lie DenOunces the Ownership of Land and IL
illustrates Henry Georges PIatform-Ben-
efits that Would Result from Change.

New York Special
Not since the halffrenzied ovation rendered
Henry George in Cooper Union, Immediately
after the municipal election, has there been
seen in New York SO enthusiastic an audience
as that which greeted Rev. DR.. Edward Nc
Glynn in the Academy of Music this evening.
II was nominally to hear what he had to say
about 1.-The Cross of New Crusade which
made the people come, though it was evident
from the moment the audience took form and
began to show its temper that the personal pop
ularity of DIR. MeGlynn had no little to do in
bringing them together. It was, IN fact Nc
G!ynn demonstration of the most ardent charac-
ter. From the moment of his first appearance
upon the stage to his last words at the end of an
address nearly three hours ia length the audi
ence was constantly breaking out in deafening
cheers and cries of approval, accompanied by
such wild futtering of handkerchiefs and hats
as the Academy has rarely seen before. Some
of the things DR.. McGlynn said in the course of
his long address were as follows:
II stand to night upon not very familiar
platform 1t is true that may have appeared
once and again on this or similar platforms to
plead what may not inappropriately be called a
political cause. l have spoken occasionally to
virtue of importance and of law Yet scarcely
one among you needs to be told tonight that
have been exceedingly more familiar with an
other place, and with another platform. and for
many long years had been ministering before
Christian affairs. and preaching from Christian
pulpits. Ard if / am not permitted to preach
the truths that preached only because knew
them to be truths, and to minister before affairs
before which reverently bowed only because l
believed them to be the affairs of God / shall
| preach them as best may wherever l may be
| permitted. Whlrlwind of applause do not
| admit that it is the province of the Christian
Church to control infinitely the political inter-
| ests of nations. know enough of my theology
| 70 know what the divine doctrines of the
| church, and it is part of the teaching of this
| theology that the dogmas which are tat ght by
| the church of Christ must necessarily have
| their origin and their sanction In all the
| teachings of Christ himself. The of
the new crusade is not raised in hostility to the
| cross of Christ. 1t was man of God-a
| hermit consecrated by the peculiar sanctity of
| life, profession and practice to the service OF
| Chrst-who became the preacher of the holy
| war that took for itself the name of crusade.
| The crusade was to ransom from captivity the
| tomb of Christ to redeem thousands and tens of
| thousands of Christian men and women who
| were enslaved under the hated ensign of the Sar-
| aeon invaders; to emanciuate individual men aud
women in countless Inultltudes from horrible
| chatte slavery. It was to restore to Christen-
| dom the possession of the places that had been
made sacred by the life. the tears, the music of
| the past and the expiring cry upon the cross of
| Him who gave name TO Chrstencom. Those
crusades saved Europe from a thralldom as bad
as that under which the Grecian empire went
| down and is suffering TO the present day. 1t was
| a man of God, hermit who became the preach
| er of the holy war. Under his miraculous preach
| ing his hearers took on noble sense or the dig
| nifty of Christian men and women, and OF the
| magnificent dignity of Christendom. They for
got for time their selfish cares; the noble for
| got for little while to Cypress the serf, and the
serf for little while forgot TO curse the mobiles;
the merchant for little while gave over
the soriid pursuit os gain and the
husbandman left his pillow in the furrow.
The sanity hermit, coming like a man from
| some other sphere, with austere countenance,
with haggard looks bearing in his person
marks of the hardships of the Saracenic slavery,
fred the heart of Europe. Kings, popes, prelates,
| priests, knights, soldiers and husbandmen and
the merchants of the cities recognized in him. as
if by a common consent, messenger of God,
and all rushed as If upon instinct of the holy
Spirit make war for the redemption of the
sepucher of Christ, to ransom the Christian
| slaves. to redeem the Holy land.
| ''And so the cross of new crusade stands for
the acceptance Of men and women by whomso-
ever will hear the CALL the trumpet blast that
| invites them to forget themselves, set aside
their wretched griefs to utterly renounce the in
justice in which they may have hitherto been
engaged, and to take on q new enthusiasm of hui
manity in believing, in working, in battling in
suffering and, if need be, in dying, for the right
Applause for great TRUTH shall not be
| guilty of the indscretion of calling it g
| new truth-for a truth that like all great truths
must in it's germ and its essence be as old as God
himself and eternity and as old the world or
the of men in time. lApplause And SC
it is crusade to which many of you are
invited for the proclaming the propagatine and
the enforcing of ancient truth-a truth that
Is eminently cOnsummate with the great truth
of Christianity itseif-and, properly understood
resolves itself into the very essence, the very
yvhr
spake as never man spake before since and in
homely accents to the lowly and the oppressed,
the comforting doctrine, all humane with truth
and light of the fatherhood of one God and the
universal brotherhood of men. [Applause.
This movement is essentially q religious one.
1t were useless to pirate about truth, and beauty,
and goodness, and justice, and humanity and
the brotherhood of man If this truth, and Just
ice, and goodness, and beauty, and this univer-
sal brotherhood found not their source and their
center their type, their idea, their justification
in God himself. Applause
"From very early day pondered and tor
mented myself with the questions: Why is there
so much misery in the world? Why are there sc
many earefooted and ragged childrena Why
are there many seeking bread and seeking i,
in vain? ] wondered and tormented myself with
the question why it was that many who work
not, neither do they spIn were dressed in all the
colors Of the rainbow, and were actually stated
with the good things of this world and found
life itself bore. aattered myself that Chris,
gave to individual man and to all the natura
rights of manhood and citizenship. The Chris
tian church gained magnificent patrimony
upon which it has been banking for centuries
and the allegiance of all the nations of Europe
by sending out her priests to gather MP the waits
and strays and fragments of humanity, the blind
and poor. and foundlines and insane; to gather
up from the wayside all that suffer from tyranny
These missionaries never went TO apologize
to the Roman emperor. Thunders of ap
plause. They never went even to seek an
interview. [Applause. They wen. on with su
| preme cool Indifference to preach the gospel, tc
!, | gather up the fragments of Christian humanity
in the persons of the poor. [Applause.] The
Roman emperor gave orders that their heads
should be cut off [Laughterl And these